Set Summer Business Boundaries

I used to believe I could outplan summer. Like I could cram six months of work into two, and still enjoy the blink-and-you-miss-it version of summer we get here in Calgary.

Batch the content. Answer all the emails. Keep the house semi-functional. Be everywhere—just with that effortless, summer-vacation energy.

Who was I kidding? I wasn’t giving summer vibes—I was giving burnout by Wednesday and unfinished to-do list by Friday.

So I did what actually helps—I stopped pretending it was working and got honest about what I could realistically manage.

But first, I panicked a little. Then I started rethinking everything.

Here’s what I realized:

When you’re solo—and still trying to get your business to that steady, breathing space—you can’t set hours based on how many things you should be doing. You have to set them based on how much energy you actually have.

That means:

• No magical 3-day summer workweek where everything gets done in half the time.
• No hustle-Sundays “just to get ahead.”
• And definitely no comparing your hours to someone with a team, a VA, or a schedule that doesn’t include kid pickup and grocery runs.